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- Water & Salt
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- 2017
- Published by: Red Hen Press
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Water & Salt sings in the voices of people ravaged by cycles of war and news coverage. These poems alternately rage, laugh, celebrate and grieve, singing in the voices of people ravaged by cycles of war and news coverage and inviting the reader to see the human lives lived beyond the headlines.
Table of Contents
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- I: You Will Need to State the Reason for Your Visit
- Upon Arrival
- p. 15
- Grandmothering
- p. 16
- Time Travel
- pp. 17-19
- Rules for Recitation
- pp. 20-21
- My English Teacher Tells Me
- pp. 24-25
- Damascus Dowry Chest
- p. 26
- Eating the Earth
- pp. 29-30
- II: Emerging from the Ancient Wound
- Mountain, Stone
- p. 36
- Water & Salt
- pp. 37-38
- Running Orders
- pp. 39-40
- Abu Nasser
- pp. 41-42
- Intifada Portrait
- pp. 43-44
- Again and Again
- pp. 45-46
- Blue Morning Music
- pp. 49-51
- Mount Sinjar
- pp. 52-53
- Newsworthy
- pp. 54-57
- Superpowers
- pp. 58-59
- Exceptional
- p. 60
- It’s Beirut out Here
- pp. 61-62
- III: Amulets for the Journey
- Almond Trilogy
- pp. 65-67
- National Security Advisory
- pp. 68-69
- Amman Coiffure
- p. 74
- The Whole Point
- pp. 77-78
- Translation
- p. 79
- Lighthouse
- p. 80
- Relocation
- pp. 81-83
- Middle Village
- pp. 85-86
- Time Management
- pp. 87-88
- Cruising Altitude
- p. 93
- Subterranean
- pp. 95-96
Additional Information
ISBN
9781597095945
Related ISBN(s)
9781597090292
MARC Record
OCLC
1013742410
Pages
96
Launched on MUSE
2017-12-06
Language
English
Open Access
No
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